Academy of Distinguished Teachers at UT Arlington
Dr. Jonathan Campbell
Professor, Biology
College of Science / Department of Biology
Date Inducted: 2000
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E-mail: campbell@uta.edu
Phone: 817-272-2406
Teaching Expertise: Guatemala herpetology.
Dr. Campbell, Professor of Biology, won the the "Distinguished Record of Research" award for long term research accomplishments. Dr. Campbell, a world-reknowned expert on the distribution of and patterns of relationships in amphibians and reptiles in Middle America, is the author of four books and nearly one hundred articles in scientific journals.
His latest book is The Amphibians and Reptiles of Northern Guatemala, Yucatan, and Belize (University of Oklahoma Press). He is also the primary editor of "Snake Species of the World," a three-volume series sponsored by the Association of Systematics Collections, the World Conservation Union, and the Herpetologists' League.
Campbell has been associated with UTA since 1973 when he enrolled in the Masters' program. After receiving his M. A. in Biology in 1977, he was an instructor and collections manager of the UTA Collection of Vertebrates. The following year, Campbell left UTA to pursue his doctorate at the University of Kansas, which he received in 1983. After that, he returned to UTA as an Assistant Professor, was promoted to Associate Professor in 1988 and Professor in 1993.
Since 1983, Campbell has also held the position of Curator of Herpetology for the UTA Collection of Vertebrates, a collection with over 100,000 specimens. According to Dr. Neal Smatresk (Chair of Biology), Campbell has "built the UTA Collection of Veterbrates to a level of national prominence". Smatresk adds that Campbell is one of "few current recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) funding for vertebrate systematics and is highly regarded by that agency".